ID: 17975
Date of birth : 1869
Date of death : 1952
Sveinn Ólafsson Photo: VÍÆ II
Sveinn Ólafsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on August 17, 1869. He died in Saskatchewan on September 5, 1952.
Spouse: 1896 Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on October 21, 1875.
Children: 1. Guðbrandur Jóhann b. in Akureyri on July 2, 1896 2. Baldur b. September 14, 1898 3. Joseph b. December 22, 1912.
They came west across the ocean in 1902, were first in Mountain, N. Dakota, then, after some time, in Winnipeg. They moved to the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906 and were farmers near Leslie until 1948.